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Example sentences for: distressingly

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And the evidence that this produces downward mobility is distressingly strong.
On the contrary, for those of us who grew up in the '80s, it spoke with a fresh, real perspective that's distressingly rare.
If you, like Donny Osmond, are among the 1-in-8 distressingly diffident Americans, a new drug can treat you.
The hard truth, I would argue, is that this way of seeing the world is itself distressingly soft.